I love a balance between music that soothes the soul and encourages the heart and mind to ponder the deeper parts of the human condition. There is the sense that you’re immersed in a world far removed from the day to day grunge of commuting and Excel spreadsheets, Continue Reading
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I am an extrovert gay man living in Sydney who loves Indian food, current affairs, music, film and reading, caramel anything, and a beautiful guy called Steve who makes every day a delight. I am trying to get two novels in a trilogy ready for e-publication, love my iPhone & iPod, and am secretly Canadian in my soul. Life is fun, exciting and joyful and I aim to make the absolute most of it!
Movie review: Tomorrowland
Keeping your childlike sense of wonder and boundless optimism into adulthood can be a tall order, especially when, like Frank Walker (George Clooney), you have good reason to discard it favour of well-worn cynicism and paranoid distrust. But as the Brad Bird-directed Tomorrowland reminds us over and over in Continue Reading
“What fresh hell is this?”: The hilariously revengeful sorority whodunnit, Scream Queens
SNAPSHOT Wallace University is rocked by a string of murders. Kappa House, the most sought-after sorority for pledges, is ruled with an iron fist (in a pink glove) by its Queen Bitch, CHANEL OBERLIN (Emma Roberts, American Horror Story: Freak Show, Scream 4). But when anti-Kappa DEAN MUNSCH (Jamie Lee Continue Reading
Who wouldn’t want to stay in The Grand Overlook Hotel? (The Shining + Grand Budapest Hotel mash-up)
Who wouldn’t want to stay in The Grand Overlook Hotel indeed? Well quite possibly everyone really, particularly if a quite mad, pre-frozen to death in the maze Jack Torrance was bashing his way into your room with an axe while screaming “Here’s Johnny!” But what if that same hotel also Continue Reading
You are what you eat: Let Cooties infect you with an hilarious take on the zombie apocalypse
SNAPSHOT A mysterious virus hits an isolated elementary school, transforming the kids into a feral swarm of mass savages. An unlikely hero must lead a motley band of misfit teachers in the fight of their lives. Cooties is co-directed by Jonathan Milott & Cary Murnion, making their feature directing Continue Reading
And now that the glitter has settled … Eurovision 2015 wrap-up
And the winner is … SWEDEN! After what can only be described as one of the most tense voting sessions of any Eurovision Song Contest I’ve ever witnessed – at one point, first place was an effective three way tie between Russia, Italy and Sweden, with Russia edging ever Continue Reading
“This is the time for overkill”: Falling Skies goes all out in its new season 5 trailer
If Earth wasn’t already overcrowded, what with humanity, the “fishhead” Espheni and the Volm all duking it out for control of our pretty blue planet (or what’s left of it anyway), then it’s about to resemble a crowded commuter train at peak hour when a brand new “beautiful” race, the Continue Reading
It’s beginning to look a lot like a Murray Christmas … yes already!
SNAPSHOT Murray plays himself as the host of a holiday variety show, but a snowstorm may prevent anyone from showing up, leaving him to mope around … [that is until] a star-filled cast including Murray, George Clooney, Amy Poehler, Michael Cera, Chris Rock, Maya Rudolph, Jason Schwartzman, Rashida Jones Continue Reading
Movie review: San Andreas
As the Hoover Dam splinters in a thousand concrete shards, the Hollywood sign tumbles slowly down its resting place, and San Francisco is pummelled, set on fire and comprehensively levelled by a tsunami, we should be, by all rights, aghast at such wanton destruction of all the great (Californian) things Continue Reading
First impressions: Wayward Pines
*SOME SPOOKY SPOILERS AHEAD* Tree changers of the world beware. Any romanticised ideas you might have about leaving the big bad city behind for a simpler, idyllic life amongst the trees and towering snowcapped mountains will soon be put to rest by Fox’s new series Wayward Pines. Based on Continue Reading